Description
Keep up to date with equipment and scanner frequency changesUp to date frequency listings Covers the latest digital technologies Fully illustrated with photos of latest equipment and accessories Tables of UK frequencies and call signsThe 'Scanners' series of books have been consistent bestsellers, being the UK's leading guides to receiving equipment employed by enthusiasts to monitor the short wave and VHF/UHF wavebands used by airfields, maritime and rescue services, and analogue and digital two-way private mobile radio systems. This new (seventh) edition covers the rapidly increasing trend towards digital two-way radio communications and the latest handheld and mobile/base scanners with some digital modes fitted. This new edition also includes details of an increasing number of 'apps' for Smartphone specifically for radio data decoding, including programs for digital scanner communications decoding for which a Smartphone can be linked to an existing scanner radio to decode. Other innovations include TETRA as used by police, ambulance, fire and rescue services, and DMR modes such as Mototrbo. It is predicted that by 2016, fifty per cent of two-way radio communication in the UK will use digital modes
